New radiolarian data from the Jurassic ophiolitic mélange of Avala Mountain (Serbia, Belgrade Region)

Tectonic units of the Alpine collision zone between Eastern Alps and western Turkey

“…There the Sava suture zone is, however, not easy to define since the Upper Cretaceous sediments covering Western Vardar ophiolites and Eastern Vardar ophiolites adjacent to the suture zone are virtually indistinguishable in the field from those that define the Sava suture zone. Starting from the alternative interpretation of a main contact along the large-offset Bela Reka fault (Tolji c et al, 2018), Bragin et al (2019) have reinterpreted the exact location of the Sava suture zone along a diffuse boundary between the location of scarce remnants of the Western and Eastern Vardar ophiolites that rim the Sava suture zone to the west and east. As proposed by Tolji c et al ( 2018) the Upper Cretaceous sediments, exhibiting a substantial thickness of 3e4 km in the Belgrade area, were deposited, from west to east, over the subsiding passive margin of Adria including the overlying Western Vardar ophiolites, a trench representing the Sava suture zone.…”